Two IU professors have organized an intensive workshop for companies and others wanting to to better connect with consumers through video games, virtual worlds and other immersive environments.

GameZombie.tv, a popular Indiana University student-run, original game video series that distributes its offerings online through its Web site and other popular sites, has been selected as a Webby Awards Honoree for the second straight year.

Jay Kincaid, senior director at Indiana University Radio/Television Services, has received an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Dozens of Indiana University students in Bloomington will observe World Day for Physical Activity on Wednesday (April 8) with a 4-mile trek around the scenic campus as they search for a mysterious character. The students are competitors in the alternate reality game Skeleton Chase 2: The Psychic.

A visual analysis of television presidential campaign coverage from 1992 to 2004 suggests that the three broadcast television networks -- ABC, CBS, NBC -- favored Republicans in each election, according to two Indiana University professors in a new book.

Four Indiana University alumni will be among nine people honored Oct. 2 by the Indiana Broadcasters Association's Richard M. Fairbanks Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame.

Indiana University announced today (May 29) that it received a $185,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to explore how interactive digital games can be designed to improve college students' health.

GameZombie.tv, a popular video game review Web site created and run by students in Indiana University's Department of Telecommunications, has been selected as a Webby Awards Honoree, recognizing excellence in their use of the Internet.

News images of political candidates are vastly underappreciated as a source of information and play a central role in shaping voter impressions of presidential candidates, according to a recently published visual analysis of the last four presidential elections by two Indiana University professors.

For the third consecutive year, the Indiana University Alumni Association has received awards for its alumni-relations program from its professional organization, the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), Region V. The IUAA earned silver medals for two programs in the annual Pride of CASE V Awards Program.

Bill O'Reilly may proclaim at the beginning of his program that viewers are entering the "No Spin Zone," but a new study by Indiana University media researchers found that the Fox News personality consistently paints certain people and groups as villains and others as victims, calling a person or a group a derogatory name once every 6.8 seconds, on average.

Indiana University Bloomington professors Erik Bucy and Russell Hanson are available to discuss the State of the Union address on Tuesday (Jan. 23). Their contact information is listed below along with their perspectives on the president's annual message to Congress and what viewers might look and listen for.

The Indiana University School of Education has received a $500,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to help researchers better understand how video games can help students become empathetic citizens and to support their knowledge development. The project is called "Academic Play Spaces: Learning for the 21st Century."

Faculty at Indiana University have received a $240,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation to create a multiplayer synthetic world based on the world of Shakespeare. Their work will both educate students and provide other social scientists with a new research tool.

Which would you think has more substantive news coverage, traditional broadcast network newscasts or The Daily Show with Jon Stewart? Julia A. Fox, assistant professor of telecommunications at IU, isn't joking when she says the popular "fake news" program is just as substantive as network coverage.

A new Indiana University study of news reports by television reporters embedded with American troops in the early days of the Iraq War found little support for critics who question the journalists' objectivity.

Southern California usually is a sunny destination for many college students on spring break, but IU senior Ole Brereton isn't going there for the sun and the glitter. He's going there to accept an award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the same people who hand out Emmy Awards. Brereton is a first place winner in the Academy's College Television Awards.